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No. 4/23 January 13, 2023
1. What Will Japan-France Summit Bring to Asia-Pacific Region
2. Interference in Internal Affairs Rejected
3. Children with Disabilities Realize Their Dream
4. Proud Tradition of Patriotic Movement
5. Rangnang Civilization
What Will Japan-France Summit Bring to Asia-Pacific Region
Japanese Prime Minister Kishida on January 9 arrived in France as the first schedule of his visit to the G7 member states and held a summit with President Macron.
At the summit, Kishida explained the purport and purpose of the new national security strategy set forth in December last year under the pretext of "threats" from neighboring countries, reckoning France as an "important partner necessary for building the free and open Indo-Pacific".
He asserted that the security of Europe and the Indo-Pacific region is in "inseparable relationship" and, therefore, substantial cooperation with France, including joint military exercises, should be continuously promoted.
This clearly proved the aim of Kishida's visit which is to win support from the member states for Japan's new national security strategy with preemptive attack and arms buildup as its gist.
The new national security strategy Japan peddles in the member states of G7 is a confrontational scenario as it turned the previous policy of "exclusive defense" into a policy of preemptive attack and war in its contents and character.
It is the international community's comment that Japan has completely cast away its veil of a "pacifist state" by deciding to possess the "capability of counterattacking enemy's base".
As the concern and repugnancy of neighboring countries over its new national security strategy have grown day by day, Japan set out on a solicitation trip to secure the support of countries sharing "common values".
What matters is that some Western countries are actively joining Japan in its moves to become a military giant, bringing the dark clouds of instability to the Asia-Pacific region.
There is a greater danger in the fact that all countries visited by Kishida are NATO member states.
In June last year, the U.S., Britain, France and other major NATO member states at a summit gave a warning to "China's systematic challenge to the region linked with the security of the alliance" and adopted a new "strategic concept" whose main point is to contain China.
It is well known to the world that NATO has made public its plan to deploy more warships in the Asia-Pacific region and take more active part in the joint military drills with its allies, escalating the regional tension.
In case of France alone, it dispatched a French air detachment to the Pacific region, under the pretext of demonstrating air force capability ranging from its mainland to the South Pacific, to join the U.S.-led joint air drill in September last year.
It is the sinister intention of NATO stretching its tentacles to the Asia-Pacific region to put pressure on China in an all-round way by justifying its advance into the Asia-Pacific region under various pretexts and steadily expanding its influence over the region.
This is clearly evidenced by the fact that the Japan-France summit called for "unilateral change of status quo" in the East and South seas of China, talking about the Taiwan issue that belongs to China's internal affairs.
Japan plays the role of a guide introducing NATO, a legacy of the Cold War, into the Asia-Pacific region, while NATO tries to set its foot in the region. Such behaviors are sowing the seeds of discord deep in the Asia-Pacific region where the interests are complicatedly intertwined over the historical and territorial issues and so on.
They must be making a wrong choice.
Asia-Pacific is not what was in the past, and regional countries are strictly watching the recent worrying moves of Japan and outside forces.
Kishida's foreign tour will only bring security instability to the Asia-Pacific region.
Interference in Internal Affairs Rejected
With regard to the general parliamentary election of Bangladesh to be held in January 2024, embassies of 15 countries in this country, namely the U.S., the UK, the EU, Japan etc. have recently issued a statement which urges Bangladeshi government to ensure a free, fair and inclusive election as well as free gathering for it, giving such a false impression that democracy has been throttled in this country.
Meanwhile, the EU ambassador to Cambodia announced its aid of € 2 million for the activities of anti-government organizations which are being perpetrated under the pretext of ensuring “freedom of expression” and “democratic participation” in Cambodia.
It is clearly stipulated in Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations that it is the duty of diplomats to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State and that they also have a duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State.
However, the U.S. and the West are given to the interference in internal affairs of others even in disregard of the international law. Their purpose is nothing else.
Obviously, it is to back pro-U.S., Pro-West forces in these countries in a bid to instigate anti-governmental activities and create political instability so as to prevent these countries from pursuing independent and free external and internal policies.
Such impudent acts of interference by the U.S. and the West are now inviting due denunciation and rejection.
Foreign Minister and the State Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh underlined that the election of leader in its country is not determined by any conspiring forces or outsiders but by Bangladeshi people themselves. They also expressed their firm stand that the Western diplomats in the country should bear in their mind that Bangladesh is not a colonial state any longer but an independent one which is not subordinated to any other country.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice of Cambodia expressed doubt and concern over the motive and purpose of the EU’s financial aid only limited to the NGOs known as anti-government organizations. They strongly demanded that the EU should respect their law and stop its interference in their internal affairs.
All the countries aspiring to independence and justice should increase vigilance for improper interference of the U.S. and the West in internal affairs and resolutely oppose and reject it. It is also an urgent prerequisite to establish a fair and impartial international relations and order.
Kang Won, Member of Korea-Asia Association
Children with Disabilities Realize Their Dream
The Korea Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Disabilities (KRCCD) is making efforts to help children with disabilities get access to school education like normal children.
The centre provides a comprehensive and multi-functional rehabilitation service for children with autism, cerebral palsy, hearing impairment, Down’s syndrome and other disorders.
Song Hyang Chun, directress of the centre, said that children who were under the protection of their parents due to congenital disorders are recovering their health step by step under the care of nursing teachers and doctors and receiving normal education at kindergartens and schools.
Medical workers of the centre are making correct diagnoses according to the types of disabilities and applying positive and persistent therapies. Its nursing teachers are developing the intelligence of children by means of intelligence-promoting toys and steadily improving their teaching methods and contents to help them easily understand the teaching contents.
Meanwhile, children play such interesting games as colour matching and picture puzzle in the centre with home-like-environment. They also try to get familiar with various movements, wearing clothes and buttoning up by themselves with the help of tools.
Its recreation hall is a favourite haunt of children. After the lesson, they come here to enjoy themselves at sliding and swinging.
Mother of five-year-old Ri Ye Hyon living in Neighbourhood Unit No. 76 of Jonu-dong, Moranbong District, Pyongyang, said: I felt really hopeless when my daughter was diagnosed as an autism. But after receiving two-year-long treatment under the sincerity and care of doctors and nurses at the centre, she now goes to the kindergarten with her friends. I can hardly keep back my tears of gratitude for them.
The children who have recovered their health at the centre thanks to the benefits of free medical care and free education are realizing their hope and dreams at schools together with other normal children.
The KRCCD was founded in March Juche 101 (2012).
Proud Tradition of Patriotic Movement
It is a proud tradition of the Korean people that they have dynamically conducted various socialist patriotic movements and revolutionary mass movements out of ardent patriotism.
The general ideological mobilization movement for nation building, the first mass movement in our country initiated by President Kim Il Sung after the liberation of Korea, was a great patriotic movement that burned up all the remnants of the decades-long Japanese imperialists' colonial rule and aroused the people to the building of a new society by remolding their thinking.
The working people kindled the flames of increased production by applying the President's nation-building idea to the implementation of their revolutionary tasks.
The workers of Jongju locomotive section in the field of railway transport raised the torch of a patriotic drive for increased production to put the railway service on a normal basis.
The President made sure that the creative and patriotic movement by the railway employees of Jongju was named the "Kim Hoe Il Movement" after the pioneer of the movement. This movement developed into a mass movement for increased production.
Meanwhile, the peasants waged a patriotic campaign to donate rice to the country to solve the country's difficult food problem.
And various other campaigns, including the anti-illiteracy campaign, were performed to contribute to laying the foundation for building a new country.
During the Fatherland Liberation War, the aircraft-hunting team movement, the tank-hunting team movement and the My Height movement were launched by the soldiers of the Korean People's Army, while the flames of all-people patriotic movements such as the movement for donating funds for weaponry and the plow-woman movement were kindled in the rear to significantly contribute to the victory in the war.
In the periods of the postwar great Chollima upswing and the overall socialist construction, such mass movements as the Chollima Movement and the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement were staged. Then, the 80s and 90s speed movements were vigorously performed and, as a result, the DPRK could emerge a socialist state independent in politics, self-supporting in the economy and self-reliant in national defence and great changes were made in the ideological, technical and cultural fields.
Along with the numerous patriotic movements which were staged through decades and centuries, the national power of the country has grown stronger and the advancing speed of the Korean revolution has remarkably increased, thus ushering in a new history of miracle and prosperity in the country.
The Korean people are dynamically speeding up the advance in the new year to glorify this year as a year of great turn and change to be notably recorded in the course of the Republic's development by launching an active socialist patriotic movement and mass movement.
Rangnang Civilization
Rangnang Museum, located in Thongil Street in the capital city of Pyongyang, was inaugurated late in September last year.
On display there are over 2 000 pieces of typical historical relics and remains that intensively showcase the development of Rangnang civilization which succeeded to the civilization of Ancient Joson.
Among them are castle remains, building sites, wells, weaponry, harness and wagon fittings, personal trinkets and dressing receptacles, which show the social conditions in those days.
Such historical relics as narrow brass dagger and spearhead, flowerpot and potbellied jar represent the late period of Ancient Joson. And iron sword with a ring haft, golden-belt ring, silver cup and flying horse sculpture could not be found in the earlier years. They reflect the independent character and lawful development processes of Rangnang civilization.
There are also grey or dove grey ceramics which were baked at a temperature of over 1 200℃ by introducing a moulding technology using a framework-removing method and a potter’s wheel with fast revolving speed. They reflect the porcelain production technique that developed onto a new high stage.
Eight tombs have been restored to their original state. Among them are Wooden-box tomb No. 10 in Jongbaek-dong, Log-cabin tomb No. 2 in Jongbaek-dong, and Wooden ceiling-and-single-chamber brick tomb No. 105 in Rangnang-dong, which show the burial customs and the changing processes of tomb building in those days.
Also on display in the museum are various remains that vividly and comprehensively show the development of spinning, paper-making and glass-making techniques created by the Korean ancestors.
Last year, the circle of historical science, based on the data of historical relics and remains unearthed in the Rangnang area, named them the Rangnang civilization, as it had been created by the population in the late period of Ancient Joson and its ruined people in the mid-western part of Korea, ranging from the region south of the Chongchon River to the Ryesong River basin centred on Pyongyang from the 3rd century BC to the first half of the 4th century AD.
After its inauguration, the museum draws endless streams of Pyongyang citizens, youth and students every day.